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The Handbook of Collaborative Management Research makes two major contributions to the field: 1. It captures and discusses alternative approaches and areas for cooperation between the academy and industry in the field of organization and management studies, and highlights important experiences and possibilities from recent collaborative research efforts. 2. The Handbook offers empirically based studies undertaken in boundary-spanning knowledge creation projects. The Handbook of Management Research is unique and explicitly aimed at being both a handbook on methodology and a handbook offering research findings and learning from truly collaborative research activities. The editors have brought together the world's leading authorities to: map out the territory, reflect comprehensively on the main theoretical, methodological and empirical developments that have occurred in the field since its inception, draw out important practical implications, and provide clear direction to where the field might move next.
Collaborative Research in Pharmacy Operations: The Kaiser Permanente Experience
Collaborative Research in Pharmacy Operations: The Kaiser Permanente Experience
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The chapter begins with a brief review of the changing U.S. healthcare industry context, and Kaiser Permanente's history of using collaborative management research to improve the working climate. With this background, attention shifts to Kaiser's Communication Forum, a learning mechanism that has been in place for over 30 years. Cognitive, structural, and procedural aspects of the learning mechanism are explored, and the chapter features interviews with some of the key forum players. The interviews provide rich data on internal and external researcher roles, forum processes, and the knowledge produced. Implications for the forum as a learning mechanism are explored in discussion and ...
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